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Biographical note
Agustina Bazterrica is an Argentinian novelist and short-story writer. She is a central figure in the Buenos Aires literary scene, working as a cultural organiser and workshop curator. She has received several awards for her writing, most notably the prestigious Premio Clarín Novela for her second novel, Tender is the Flesh, which has been translated into over 20 languages and is also available from Pushkin Press.Gothic and brilliantly grim, these uneasy tales from the author of Tender Is The Flesh are as shadowy as night even in the bright glare of sunshine, as Bazterrica's darkly macabre imagination works like talon and beak, capable of tearing apart everyday situations and transforming them into something horribly chilling
Daily Mail
In 19 Claws, Bazterrica resumes the study of the macabre that characterised Tender Is the Flesh. This time, however, the brutality of the female experience is cut through with a dark wit and a heavy dose of the fantastic
Guardian
Delightfully unexpected, tar-dark short fiction... Each story is pleasurably brief, gorgeously cutting
Irish Times
Like Enriquez, Bazterrica writes fetishistic gore with a bewitching allure, creating... an overwhelming sense of dread and a fear of losing one's senses
Big Issue
A compelling and unsettling work that will leave readers questioning the boundaries between love, desire, and obsession
Glamour
This book will leave you shocked into contemplating the darker sides of human nature
Sci Fi Now
Provocative... Vivid and bizarre, this will entrance
Publishers Weekly
Written in her deliciously dark tone, Bazterrica's claws puncture polite society's fragile membrane, revealing the darkness writhing beneath
Litro